NASA’s ESCAPADE mission is being held up as a test case for a new era of cheaper planetary science, one where small ...

This low-cost mission is still only getting started, and it's taking bigger risks than typical big-ticket NASA missions.

NASA is preparing to close its largest research library this week, a move that has stirred deep concern among scientists, ...

NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.

Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA's Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, ...

NASA's Athena Economical Payload Integration Cost mission, or Athena EPIC, is a test launch for an innovative, scalable space vehicle design to support future missions. The small satellite platform is ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

This quote, from the 1983 movie “The Right Stuff,” encapsulates the idea that ambitions in space do not come cheap. With that in mind, what are the prospects for NASA as its budget wends its way ...

NASA launched four flying saucer-shaped spacecraft into orbit on Thursday. The space agency says the UFO lookalikes are new tech that might "expand access to space." Called DiskSat, the plate-shaped ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship center for space science is under attack from within, and some of the biggest ...

WASHINGTON — NASA scientists and engineers are demanding Congress help turn down the heat on an agency whose current leadership, they say, is burning down American dominance in space and science. A ...

NASA has transformed data from distant stars into orchestral music. Using star vibrations and light variations, scientists ...